Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz — Today's first witness is Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån and later on the IFPI's CEO John Kennedy will testify, although it's not expected that he will respond to the open letter and peace offering issued yesterday by the ‘Kopimists’.

The Kindle Swindle? — BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sustain book-writing as a viable occupation.

Amazon Exposes 1 Terrabyte of Public Data — Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap “computing in the cloud” business that changed the computing world. This week the company's newest project Public Data Sets …

The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. — The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. — It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.

Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo — Yahoo's top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries's departure with company insiders familiar with the situation.

Apple updates Apple TV software to version 2.3.1 [Ux2] — Apple overnight released a minor software update for owners of its Apple TV set-top media box that has thus far been revealed to include a new Network Test function and improvements when using Apple Remote for iPhone.

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) — Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a select number of reporters to brief them on our upcoming “Istanbul” processor and show them some demos as well. — As always, when you are doing a demo on an unreleased product, you're always on your toes.

Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage — Oh the humanity — Free whitepaper - Lower security risks and costs by minimizing the time to protection — Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.

Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of the social networking site inside the packed House chamber.

The Stealth Apple Shareholder Meeting — To wit, Apple [AAPL Loading... () ] will not be streaming the event to its website, a restriction it has historically used. Nor, I'm told, will Apple allow any communication devices into the event so those of us trying to cover it can live blog.

Who profits from the App Store? — You will struggle to find a happy shopkeeper right now - but I've just met one. His name is Eric, and he has good reason to be contented. After all his store only opened in July last year, but has already sold 500 million products, and its deal with its suppliers means it gets 30% of the revenues.

NORTEL ANNOUNCES WORKFORCE REDUCTIONS — TORONTO - Nortel* [TSX: NT, OTC: NRTLQ], today announced it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional net 3,200 positions worldwide. The company expects to carry out these reductions over the next several months, in accordance with local country legal requirements.

HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers — HP will distribute and support Sun's Solaris 10 operating system on its Proliant and blade servers. — The companies on Wednesday unveiled a multi-year pact that will provide Sun with more distribution for its Solaris 10 platform (statement).

Texting ‘improves language skill’ — Text speak, rather than harming literacy, could have a positive effect on the way children interact with language, says a study. — Researchers from Coventry University studied 88 children aged between 10 and 12 to understand the impact of text messaging on their language skills.

New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks — I'm often doing something on my computer and want to know if I have new mail without having to keep my Gmail window open. But if you keep Gmail minimized or in an inactive tab sometimes all you see in the browser title bar is something like “Gmail - Inbo...”

15 online photo editors compared — Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors—big and small, to see what each one is capable of.

IE8 Reliability Update for Windows 7 Beta Now Available — We wanted to let you know that an update was released earlier today that will improve Internet Explorer's reliability for users running the Windows 7 Beta. The update is now available via Windows Update, and can also be downloaded via Microsoft Update.